The Psychic Spectacular: Taken Over event arrives, featuring Indeedee’s debut!
Psychic Spectacular: Taken Over
Tuesday, September 16, at 10:00 a.m. to Sunday, September 21, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. local time
Pokémon Debut
The Emotion Pokémon Indeedee will make its Pokémon GO debut! Also, you’ll be able to hatch Shiny Indeedee—if you’re lucky!
Event Bonuses
- Additional Candy for Nice Throws or better.
- 1/2 Egg Hatch Distance when Eggs are placed in an Incubator during the event period.
- Increased chance for Candy XL for Nice Throws or better for Trainers level 31 and up.
- Lunatone and Solrock will both appear in the wild during the event, regardless of your location.
- Team GO Rocket will appear more frequently at PokéStops and in balloons.*
- You can use a Charged TM to help a Shadow Pokémon forget the Charged Attack Frustration.*
- Pokémon caught via one-star and three-star Shadow Raids during the event will have a wider variance of Attack, Defense, and HP.*
Wild Encounters
Event-themed Pokémon will appear in the wild, including Abra*, Lunatone*, Solrock* and more! You might even encounter Beldum*!
Eggs
The following Pokémon will hatch from 5 km Eggs.
5 km Eggs
Smoochum*
Chingling*
Espurr*
Indeedee*
Raids
The following Pokémon will appear in raids.
Three-Star Raids
Alolan Raichu*
Hisuian Braviary*
Wyrdeer*
Save Shadow Incarnate Forme Tornadus!
Special Research will be unlocked at the beginning of this event. Progress through it to receive a Super Rocket Radar and chase down Giovanni!
You can claim this Special Research until the end of Pokémon GO: Tales of Transformation on December 2, 2025, at 9:59 a.m. local time.
Shadow Pokémon
Team GO Rocket Grunts—and their leaders, Sierra, Cliff, and Arlo—are using different Shadow Pokémon.
Team GO Rocket has also turned the following Pokémon into Shadow Pokémon. Defeat Team GO Rocket Grunts to save them!
Shadow Qwilfish
Shadow Swablu
Shadow Baltoy
Shadow Deino
Paid Timed Research
For US$4.99 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency), you’ll be able to access event-exclusive Timed Research.
Timed Research rewards include the following.
- Two Premium Battle Passes
- One Super Rocket Radar
- Encounters with event-themed Pokémon, including Ralts, Gothita, Wyrdeer, and more!
Trainers will be able to purchase and gift tickets to any of their Pokémon GO friends that they have achieved a Friendship level of Great Friends or higher with. Please note that purchases—including those made for other Trainers—are non-refundable (subject to applicable law and the exceptions set forth in the Terms of Service). Tickets cannot be purchased with PokéCoins.
Field Research Task Rewards
Event-themed Field Research tasks will be available.
Complete Field Research tasks to earn Fast TMs, Charged TMs, Mysterious Components, and more!
Pokémon GO Web Store – Psychic Spectacular: Taken Over Ultra Ticket Box
The Psychic Spectacular: Taken Over Ultra Ticket Box will be available for US$4.99 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency) and includes both an event ticket and three bonus Silver Pinap Berries at no additional cost!
Check it out in the Pokémon GO Web Store!
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—The Pokémon GO team
